Spain has sacked the chief of Catalonias regional police force, Josep Lluis Trapero, as the processing in Madrid takes control of the autonomous region to block its shove for independence.
Madrid dismissed the Catalan running, took on summit of the administration and called an additional election after the regions parliament avowed independence harshly speaking Friday.
There have been doubts on peak of how the Mossos dEsquadra, as the Catalan police are called, would reaction if ordered to evict sacked leader Carles Puigdemont and his handing out.
In an effort to defuse tensions, the regional police force urged its members to do something in a genderless atmosphere and not to sanction sides, an internal note seen in the region of Saturday by Reuters showed.
Trapero became a hero to the secessionists after his force took a much softer stance than national police in enforcing a dispensation ban around an independence referendum upon Oct. 1.
The force is riven by distrust along in the middle of those for and the length of independence and is not speaking from Spains national police forces, Mossos and national police officers have told Reuters.
Given that there is it is likely to be an lump in gatherings and rallies of citizens in all the territory and that there are people of substitute thoughts, we must remember that it is our answerability to guarantee the security of every and lead these to agreement to place without incident, the memo said.
Traperos dismissal was signed off by Spanish Interior Minister Juan Ignacio Zoido.